Volume 38, Number 6 · March 28, 1991
The Way to War
By Michael Massing
With every passing day of the Gulf War it became increasingly clear that Washington's goals extended well beyond the announced one of liberating Kuwait. Thus, during the initial weeks of the conflict, US bombers pounded not only command-and-control centers, troop formations, airfields, and other targets directly related to freeing Kuwait, but also nuclear research facilities, weapons development centers, industrial plants, oil refineries, electrical power grids, and other components of Iraq's long-range war-making capacity.
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